pseudoparalysis

pseudoparalysis
Apparent paralysis due to voluntary inhibition of motion because of pain, incoordination, or other cause, but without actual paralysis. SYN: pseudoparesis (1).
- arthritic general p. a disease, occurring in arthritic subjects, having symptoms resembling those of general paresis, the lesions of which consist of diffuse changes of a degenerative and noninflammatory character due to intracranial atheroma.
- congenital atonic p. SYN: amyotonia congenita.

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pseu·do·pa·ral·y·sis .süd-ə-pə-'ral-ə-səs n, pl -y·ses -.sēz apparent lack or loss of muscular power (as that produced by pain) that is not accompanied by true paralysis

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pseu·do·pa·ral·y·sis (soo″do-pə-ralґĭ-sis) 1. apparent loss of muscular power because of pain that is not neurologic in origin, marked by defective coordination of movements or by repression of movement. 2. hysterical paralysis.

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  • pseudoparalysis — pseudoparalytic /sooh deuh par euh lit ik/, adj. /sooh doh peuh ral euh sis/, n. Pathol. the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis. [1885 90; PSEUDO + PARALYSIS] * * * …   Universalium

  • pseudoparalysis — n. false paralysis, simulated paralysis …   English contemporary dictionary

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  • pseudoparalysis — |sü(ˌ)dō+ noun Etymology: New Latin, from pseud + paralysis : apparent lack or loss of muscular power (as that produced by pain) unattended by paralysis * * * pseudoparalytic /sooh deuh par euh lit ik/, adj. /sooh doh peuh ral euh sis/, n. Pathol …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Parrot atrophy of newborn pseudoparalysis etc. — Par·rot atrophy of newborn, pseudoparalysis, etc. (pah roґ) [Joseph Marie Jules Parrot, French physician, 1829–1883] see under pseudoparalysis and sign, see marasmus, and see ciliospinal reflex, under reflex …   Medical dictionary

  • Parrot pseudoparalysis — syphilitic pseudoparalysis apparent paralysis of one or more of the extremities of an infant owing to osteochondritis of an epiphysis in congenital syphilis …   Medical dictionary

  • Spastic pseudoparalysis — Better known as Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD). A dementing disease of the brain. CJD is believed to be due to a highly unconventional transmissible agent named a prion. It is not a bacteria, not a virus, in fact not like any other known type of …   Medical dictionary

  • псевдопаралич — (pseudoparalysis; псевдо + паралич) см. Синдром псевдопаралитический …   Большой медицинский словарь

  • псевдопаралич сифилитический — (pseudoparalysis syphilitica) см. Парро болезнь …   Большой медицинский словарь

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